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Field name | Value |
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Reference | Cookery 1644 Ge |
Library/Archive | University of Michigan |
Title | Avli Gellii Noctes Atticae |
Author/Creator | Gellius, Aulus |
Date | 1644 |
Collection | Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive |
Collection Overview | A collection of American culinary history including cookbooks, menus and ephemera from the 16th through to the 21st century. Through this culinary archive researchers can explore changing attitudes towards diet and health, homemaking, commercial dining and the industrialisation of food production. The material has been collected over many years by Jan Longone, an adjunct curator in the University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center, and her husband University of Michigan Emeritus Professor Daniel T. Longone. |
Sub-collection | Cookbooks |
Document Type | Printed Book |
Theme | Food Rituals, Feasting and Religion; Alcohol Production and Consumption; Health and Nutrition |
Subjects | alcoholic beverages vegetables wine diet trade feasts gardening |
Cuisine | North American cuisine |
Description | A seventeenth century edition of Aulus Gellius' 'Attic Nights' (Noctes Atticae), a commonplace book which seeks to "lead active and ready minds along a swift and easy short-cut to the desire for independent learning and to the study of the practical arts…", compiling notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, and preserving quotations from many lost ancient authors. |
Language | Latin; Greek |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of the University of Michigan. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Material sourced from the University of Michigan |